Top 5 cult films

cethklein · Mar 10, 2008

What are your five favorite cult films? I got this idea from a lsit I saw on MSN a week or so ago.

For me, it would be, in no particular order:

Kull the Conquerer
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
Evil Dead films
They Live
DC Cab

Honorable Mention: The Warriors.

Gravity · Mar 10, 2008

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies

Manos: the Hands of Fate

Monster A Go-Go

The Sadist

Ernest Saves Christmas

donroc · Mar 10, 2008

If it qualifies, Frankenheimer's SECONDS --Rock Hudson's best acting imho.

NikeeGoddess · Mar 10, 2008

i've never made a list but if i had one The Rocky Horror Picture Show would be there first.

cethklein · Mar 10, 2008

Would I be lynched if I said I've never actually seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show? Almost everyone I know has seen it, but for whatever reason, I've never seen it.It's like The Matrix, I've never seen those films either, but not for lack of wanting to, i jsut haven't gotten around to it.

Vandal · Mar 10, 2008

Harold and Maude

The Gods Must be Crazy

The Princess Bride!

aka eraser · Mar 10, 2008

Rocky Horror
Basket Case
Tremors
Re-Animator
Waiting For Guffman
The Big Lebowski

(So I can't count....)

Shadow_Ferret · Mar 10, 2008

If I like it, it isn't a cult film.

If I don't like it, that's what makes it a cult film.

Rocky Horror is a cult film.

The Gods Must Be Crazy is not.

mikeland · Mar 10, 2008

Five off the top of my head:

Time Bandits
Strictly Ballroom
Rushmore
Election
This is Spinal Tap

Celia Cyanide · Mar 10, 2008

cethklein said:
Would I be lynched if I said I've never actually seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show?

If everyone liked it, it wouldn't be a cult film.

I say:

Rocky Horror

Pink Flamingoes

Evil Dead

A Clockwork Orange

Halloween.

I once applied to work in a video store, and I put down on my application that I knew a lot about cult films. The idiot manager asked me if I was in a cult. Needless to say, she got fired for smoking pot in the office shortly thereafter.

dgiharris · Mar 10, 2008

First we must define cult. Any movie that has had a big screen debut across the country doesn't so much count (unless the big screen debut flopped).

now that that's taken care of. The Top Five in order are

#5 Barry Gordon's: The Last Dragon (Black "The Chosen One" kung fu 80s flick)
#4 The Boondock Saints (great Vigilante movie)
#3 I'm Gonna Get Ya Sucka (parady of black explotation films, absolute classic)
#2 The Little Shop of Horrors (1980s version, musical-movie. I hate musicals but still love this movie!)
#1 The Princess Bride (Best romantic comedy fantasy epic ever)

I almost started to include Anime, but that list would easily drown out most of the top five above.

And I am probably the only person alive who CAN'T STAND the ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW. But some things have a life of their own. go figure

underthecity · Mar 10, 2008

dgiharris said:
And I am probably the only person alive who CAN'T STAND the ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW. But some things have a life of their own. go figure

I'm the other one. I've watched it. I like two of the songs, but the rest of it is "meh."

And dgiharris, do Little Shop of Horrors and Princess Bride count as cult films? By your definition, I don't believe these to be cult films. Seems like Little Shop did pretty well in the theaters. Oh, I suppose NOW it might be a cult film . . . . And Princess Bride? Wasn't that a hit?

My additions:

Mystery Men. Kind of a box office failure, now adored by many.

Clerks. Cult cult cult.

UHF with Weird Al Yankovic. Awesome movie. Saw it in the theater. ("Roger Ebert thought I was the antichrist." --Weird Al)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The original.

allen

Dale Emery · Mar 10, 2008

Eraserhead
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
Billy Jack

dgiharris · Mar 10, 2008

underthecity said:
I'm the other one. I've watched it. I like two of the songs, but the rest of it is "meh."

And dgiharris, do Little Shop of Horrors and Princess Bride count as cult films? By your definition, I don't believe these to be cult films. Seems like Little Shop did pretty well in the theaters.

hmm.... maybe you are right??? But by today's standards they are definitely cult films.

glad I found my Rocky Horror Picture Show Hater soulmate.

Can't stand that movie

Mel...

cethklein · Mar 10, 2008

Wow someone else loves dirty Mary, Crazy Larry. Cool. Also if we're considering Boondock Saints a cult film then I'd have to have it on my list, one of my all time favorites.

Toothpaste · Mar 10, 2008

Rocky Horror is great for the beginning up until we meet Rocky (Tim Curry's entrance is AMAZING - and how can you not enjoy "The Time Warp", I say we do it again!), then, I think, things just get silly. The ending . . .

Anyway . . .

I wasn't sure if any of the films I liked were cult, but many were listed here so . ..

I agree with:

The Princess Bride
Boondock Saints
Waiting For Guffman
Rushmore
Election

(I agree with a lot of others, but these are some of my favs)

lute · Mar 10, 2008

Not in particular order, but

The Big Lebowski
A Clockwork Orange
The Boondock Saints (<3)
Rocky Horror
Eraserhead

and I totally agree for The Princess Bride! Love, love, love!

ColoradoGuy · Mar 10, 2008

Gravity said:
Manos: the Hands of Fate

Plus the Mystery Science Theater 3000 spoof of it.

CatSlave · Mar 10, 2008

Re-Animator
Borat
Fantasia
The Big Lebowski
The Wizard of Oz synched to the music of Dark Side of the Moon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Side_of_the_Rainbow

Gravity · Mar 10, 2008

Yowza! "The...Master...would not...be pleased..."

childeroland · Mar 10, 2008

Carnival of Souls (the original)
Suspiria
Fantasia (original version)
Mulholland Dr
Ghost World (what the hell happened to Thora Birch?)

runners-up
Breakfast Club
Heathers
Ferris Bueller's Day Off

otterman · Mar 10, 2008

Caddyshack

TerzaRima · Mar 10, 2008

After Hours. Underrated Scorsese movie.

Various Jim Jarmusch movies--Night on Earth and Stranger than Paradise, to name two.

I'd also like to nominate Stir of Echoes, one of the million Kevin Bacon movies out there. IIRC it went almost straight to video, and it's effectively creepy in a generally unacknowledged way. Terza=cult of one.

And what is it with some of you people and The Big Lebowski? I'm a big a Coen brothers fan as any, and I walked out of TBL. Please to 'splain me.

Don Allen · Mar 10, 2008

I spit on you grave and Faces of death.... not necessarily in that order..

plaidearthworm · Mar 10, 2008

Office Space
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (and, to some extent, the sequel, Return of the Killer Tomatoes with George Clooney and the mullet that ruled the world.)
Tank Girl
Saved!
Top Secret

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